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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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The Prairie Farmer 
For 1874! 
IT WILT AIM: 
TO help on the great work of organizing the farmers by 
means of the Patrons of Husbandry and Farmers’ 
Clubs. 
TO lead the van in the contest of the people with railroad 
and other monopolies. 
TO treat of the most approved practices in agricultural 
and horticultural pursuits. 
TO set forth the merits of the best breeds of domestic 
animals, and to elucidate the principles of correct 
breeding. 
TO furnish the latest and most important industrial news, 
at home and abroad. 
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fear or favor. 
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societies. 
TO advocate industrial education, in the correct sense of 
the term. 
TO provide information upon the public domain, western 
soils, climate, etc. 
TO answer inquiries on all manner of subjects which come 
within its sphere. 
TO give, each week, full and reliable market, crop, and 
weather reports. 
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literature. 
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Cheaper in clubs. Three months on trial, 50 cents. Sample 
number Free ! 
Singers and 
Young Pianists 
Should send 30 cents for a sample copy of Peters’s Musical 
Monthly. It contains several Songs and Choruses, four or 
five Instrumental Piano pieces, besides Vocal Duets and 
Four-hand pieces in alternate numbers. It gives from ten 
to twelve of the latest Songs and Piano pieces by such 
authors as Will S. Ilays, Dunks, Stewart, Thomas, Kinkel, 
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This superb collection consists of over 200 pages of music, 
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